Will You Marry Me?

Life goes on. People still get married, all the time they get married, start new lives together, start something big.
I had the pleasure of shooting this wonderful couple Sunday, in downtownish Mineapolis.
We had a grand old time.
Engagments are ussually easier and more fun for me. Being in Love helps out.
Alot.

Minneapolis

I spent all morning Sunday in Minneapolis with my sister, Allison. An engagement shoot and a nice breakfast of Panera bagels with toooons of cream cheese made the fall day quite... refreshing.

I love my city.

Come see me [us] in Minneapolis.

Please.

M

Some one once told me that  

What is most personal is most universal.

The pain of depression, feelings of inferiority, love, excitement about love, samll things that are big things.

So then, I write., I pray, truthfully, personally with Merton:

Lord, have mercy.

Have mercy on my darkness, my weakness, my confusion.
Have mercy on my infidelity, my cowardice, my turning about in circles, my wanderings, my evasions.
I do not ask anything but such mercy, always in everything, mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
Make me want again to be holy, to be a man of God even in desperateness and confusion.
I do not ask necessarily for clarity, a plain way, but only to go according to Your love, to follow Your mercy, to trust Your mercy.

Be still.

Give Me Eyes to See

Just a little FYI

Hair is the best when its 2 weeks grown out and 3 days unwashed.

Emily

Fall is here. In fact, in greater Minnesota fall is nearly over.

But when the leaves fall, you know what that means.
Senior Portiats.



You know, graduation stuff.


So, this week, I had the honor of photographing my younger sister Emily, who obviously, is a babe.
Oh, also, she is a senior this year.

Woot. Woot.

All my Righteousness

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  But we are all like an unclean thing,
      And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;
                        We all fade as a leaf,
      And our iniquities, like the wind,

      Have taken us away.






Isaiah 64:6

flashback to the past

2:15

"There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor
a door of hope.

There she will sing 
as in the days of her youth,

as in the day she came up                               out of Egypt."

[Hosea]